There's nothing innovative about not having unions. Toyota is en route to building the same amount of crappy cars as their american counter parts. Rapid growth is painful for a company no matter which language you translate it into. Check out this neat little factoid from the WSJ.
"Last year, Toyota recalled 2.38 million vehicles in the U.S. market, more than the 2.26 million it sold."
What possible value does your latest article offer to us the readers? It is merely an unwarranted defense against an attack that never came. If Apple is so great, shouldn't their products and services speak for themselves? Why do you feel the need to toot Apple's proverbial horn and bash their competitors? Is there a specific product or service that you are recommending to us, or did you just want us to know that on a general basis Apple is better and more sophisticated than it's Redmond based counterpart?
Given this latest fluff piece, and the new "I'm a PC, I'm a MAC" commercials that reference your reviews from the WSJ, I would say it's pretty obvious that you are no longer an objective technology critic. The only real question left is how much Apple is paying you for these product endorsements.
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Actual Response less then 15 minutes later....
From: Walt Mossberg [mailto:mossberg@wsj.com] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:14 PM To: Dan Knox Subject: Re: Get off of apple's nuts
I am a subjective opinion columnist, and for 15 years, I have been writing the occasional essay, in addition to reviews, to help frame tech trends for my readers. I have been flooded with comments and compliments on this one. As of this moment, it is the most-read and most-emailed story on the Journal's web site today. So people seem to be finding it interesting.
As for you, you seem only able to smear me. You are perfectly welcome to tell me I'm wrong. But you have no right to accuse me of corruption. I take no money, goods, or services from any company I cover, even those (including Microsoft and IBM and many others) that quote my columns in their ads or on their product packages. I don't own a single share of stock in any of them. I don't even accept discounts. If I buy an iPod or a ThinkPad or a Treo, I pay full retail like everyone else.
Are you always in the habit of assuming that anyone with whom you happen to disagree must be crooked?
Walt
======================
Walt Mossberg
Personal Technology Columnist
The Wall Street Journal
mossberg@wsj.com
http://ptech.wsj.com
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Actual email sent to Walt Regarding this weeks Mailbag on Apple "Viruses"
Walt,
Aren't you endangering users by not discussing security exploits instead of focusing in on the "viruses" specifically? The term "virus" in reference to modern security flaws / exploits is really a misnomer anyhow, the real threat to Mac users is the incredibly lazy approach they are taught when learning best security practices. As a systems administrator that maintains a network of both Windows (based) and Apple computers I was shocked at how long the most recent safari exploit took to fix and how even now it's a band-aid. Looking at the apple website (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61 798) I can see a number of "bundled security patches" over a period of months. If you believe there has been no serious exploits for OSX take a look at this sans.org article from February (http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2006-02-20 Wow! That certainly doesn't look like a "theoretical" flaw). It appears as though apple is working extra hard at creating an even less educated user base then Microsoft. Apple went through a lull with OS9 and early OSX user numbers and now that their user base is growing exponentially with the assistance of border-line fluff pieces such as today's Q&A mailbox it appears the real security approach apple is taking is "security through obscurity". I'm not at all defending Microsoft but in their case it's much harder to obscure the facts. They don't have the luxury of releasing "security update bundles" on a freewheeling schedule because of hundreds of thousands of users rely on them for mission critical applications and require a certain level of transparency and standardization. Like I said, I am in no way calling Microsoft's system perfect or even good but it is evolving and it is a major concern for the compa
I guess they can use the money they save by disconnecting their connection to buy pornography at a magazine stand instead of trying to get it for free online. Especially that boy scouts leader.
Road Runner, San Diego.
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RR tried to pull that shit on me some time ago when it was brand, brand new in the area (in fact I believe San Diego was a very early adopter) and they refused to give me my info so I could use a static ip. (I cant recall if the specific distro supported dhcp or not I was really unexperienced at the time) I just got my net setting using other means. To this day if you get a bitchy operator they get pissed when they find out you run it without their shitty software packages installed. But other times you get cool guys and they help alot, I enjoy their quality of service quite well.
in the end business controls it all. laws, software and so on. if MS can pull of.net and deliver all the stuff they have promised and more. business will switch but in a slowing economy i doubt many penny obsessed companies are ready to make a the jump specifically for cash reasons. so if apache can stay streamlined flexible and cheap it will stay a large competitor in the business world
this sounds great in theory but we've seen chip company's claim things in the past and although this may appear to be truth in the end intel will win. on the business side intel has it all, all the contracts and all the big pc makers in their pockets. its a shame but this company will not last. it will either be bought out or be sent the way of the dinosaur
Im not sure that any true slashdot fan could disagree with bio-technology advancement. it is important that before we judge we understand. i think that this is a key issue and deciding factor for which political figure i would support. as a recent attendee at Bio2001 i was disgusted with the protesters who overshadowed the true genius of some of the companies there. In our constant pursuit of debate we sometimes miss the key facts. that they dont just change food they change the way we live and often for the better
In a world filled with harsh realities and pain and hurt maybe the myth/mystery of loch ness is a good thing? and beyond that who are the sort of people that spend their whole dis-proving things like this. im wondering that if in her spare time she tries to prove that wile e. coyote would be dead by now.
and beyond that these must be some seizmic activites that do things like this? oh well no matter let whatever be. be.
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Christian Rockstars?
There's nothing innovative about not having unions. Toyota is en route to building the same amount of crappy cars as their american counter parts. Rapid growth is painful for a company no matter which language you translate it into. Check out this neat little factoid from the WSJ.
"Last year, Toyota recalled 2.38 million vehicles in the U.S. market, more than the 2.26 million it sold."
What possible value does your latest article offer to us the readers? It is merely an unwarranted defense against an attack that never came. If Apple is so great, shouldn't their products and services speak for themselves? Why do you feel the need to toot Apple's proverbial horn and bash their competitors? Is there a specific product or service that you are recommending to us, or did you just want us to know that on a general basis Apple is better and more sophisticated than it's Redmond based counterpart?
Given this latest fluff piece, and the new "I'm a PC, I'm a MAC" commercials that reference your reviews from the WSJ, I would say it's pretty obvious that you are no longer an objective technology critic. The only real question left is how much Apple is paying you for these product endorsements.
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Actual Response less then 15 minutes later....
From: Walt Mossberg [mailto:mossberg@wsj.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:14 PM
To: Dan Knox
Subject: Re: Get off of apple's nuts
I am a subjective opinion columnist, and for 15 years, I have been writing the occasional essay, in addition to reviews, to help frame tech trends for my readers. I have been flooded with comments and compliments on this one. As of this moment, it is the most-read and most-emailed story on the Journal's web site today. So people seem to be finding it interesting.
As for you, you seem only able to smear me. You are perfectly welcome to tell me I'm wrong. But you have no right to accuse me of corruption. I take no money, goods, or services from any company I cover, even those (including Microsoft and IBM and many others) that quote my columns in their ads or on their product packages. I don't own a single share of stock in any of them. I don't even accept discounts. If I buy an iPod or a ThinkPad or a Treo, I pay full retail like everyone else.
Are you always in the habit of assuming that anyone with whom you happen to disagree must be crooked?
Walt
======================
Walt Mossberg
Personal Technology Columnist
The Wall Street Journal
mossberg@wsj.com
http://ptech.wsj.com
-----
Actual email sent to Walt Regarding this weeks Mailbag on Apple "Viruses"
Walt,
Aren't you endangering users by not discussing security exploits instead of focusing in on the "viruses" specifically? The term "virus" in reference to modern security flaws / exploits is really a misnomer anyhow, the real threat to Mac users is the incredibly lazy approach they are taught when learning best security practices. As a systems administrator that maintains a network of both Windows (based) and Apple computers I was shocked at how long the most recent safari exploit took to fix and how even now it's a band-aid. Looking at the apple website (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61 798) I can see a number of "bundled security patches" over a period of months. If you believe there has been no serious exploits for OSX take a look at this sans.org article from February (http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2006-02-20 Wow! That certainly doesn't look like a "theoretical" flaw). It appears as though apple is working extra hard at creating an even less educated user base then Microsoft. Apple went through a lull with OS9 and early OSX user numbers and now that their user base is growing exponentially with the assistance of border-line fluff pieces such as today's Q&A mailbox it appears the real security approach apple is taking is "security through obscurity". I'm not at all defending Microsoft but in their case it's much harder to obscure the facts. They don't have the luxury of releasing "security update bundles" on a freewheeling schedule because of hundreds of thousands of users rely on them for mission critical applications and require a certain level of transparency and standardization. Like I said, I am in no way calling Microsoft's system perfect or even good but it is evolving and it is a major concern for the compa
I guess they can use the money they save by disconnecting their connection to buy pornography at a magazine stand instead of trying to get it for free online. Especially that boy scouts leader.
RR tried to pull that shit on me some time ago when it was brand, brand new in the area (in fact I believe San Diego was a very early adopter) and they refused to give me my info so I could use a static ip. (I cant recall if the specific distro supported dhcp or not I was really unexperienced at the time) I just got my net setting using other means. To this day if you get a bitchy operator they get pissed when they find out you run it without their shitty software packages installed. But other times you get cool guys and they help alot, I enjoy their quality of service quite well.
is it possible to pre order 666 for my number?
A match made in heaven! these two p.o.s. oems deserve each other like ike and tina
in the end business controls it all. laws, software and so on. if MS can pull of .net and deliver all the stuff they have promised and more. business will switch but in a slowing economy i doubt many penny obsessed companies are ready to make a the jump specifically for cash reasons. so if apache can stay streamlined flexible and cheap it will stay a large competitor in the business world
this sounds great in theory but we've seen chip company's claim things in the past and although this may appear to be truth in the end intel will win. on the business side intel has it all, all the contracts and all the big pc makers in their pockets. its a shame but this company will not last. it will either be bought out or be sent the way of the dinosaur
Im not sure that any true slashdot fan could disagree with bio-technology advancement. it is important that before we judge we understand. i think that this is a key issue and deciding factor for which political figure i would support. as a recent attendee at Bio2001 i was disgusted with the protesters who overshadowed the true genius of some of the companies there. In our constant pursuit of debate we sometimes miss the key facts. that they dont just change food they change the way we live and often for the better
In a world filled with harsh realities and pain and hurt maybe the myth/mystery of loch ness is a good thing? and beyond that who are the sort of people that spend their whole dis-proving things like this. im wondering that if in her spare time she tries to prove that wile e. coyote would be dead by now. and beyond that these must be some seizmic activites that do things like this? oh well no matter let whatever be. be.